Honoring Army SFC SCHUYLER B. HAYNES 11/15/06 SFC SCHUYLER B. HAYNES (40) USA/IRAQ Sgt. 1st Class Schuyler B. Haynes of New York was named after an ancestor who was a Revolutionary War general. he seemed destined to serve his country. And he did just that, becoming an Army platoon leader whose men worshiped him. He was a very dedicated person with a strong sense of duty. He was president of the student council at Millbrook School, a boarding school in upstate Millbrook, northeast of Poughkeepsie. He graduated from Trinity College in Hartford with a degree in history and then enlisted in the Army in 1989. A cat named Rembrandt is also left behind. Schuyler picked up the feline while he was stationed in Germany. Later, he and his mother would joke about ownership of the animal. The feline stayed in New York when Haynes was overseas. He always wanted an update from his mother on how Rembrandt was doing. Haynes was named after Philip Schuyler , who served first with the British military and then during the Revolutionary War as one of four major generals in the Continental Army. In 1788, he became one of the first two United States senators from New York. Schuyler was buried in the family plot near Schuyler. He was 40. findagrave/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16685597 Flags waved, a bagpipe wailed Amazing Grace and eulogies of courage and comradeship flowed forth in a church yesterday for Army Sgt. 1st Class Schuyler B. Haynes, a descendant of a famous Revolutionary War general, who was killed in Iraq two weeks ago. While no one could explain it exactly, it was clear from the words that Haynes, a 40-year-old college graduate and the quintessence of an old New York family, had chosen to be a career noncommissioned officer, staying close to his soldiers, sharing and suffering everything with them on a daily basis. He was a loyal friend and courageous leader, equally at home with any soldier, NCO or officer, said Jimmy Campbell, who served with Haynes in Iraq. He brought out the best in his subordinates and superiors and was absolutely incapable of shirking even the most meaningless duties. Haynes just wanted to be where the action was, his father, Robert Haynes, said outside the midtown Manhattan church, where more than 300 mourners, including dozens of family members, nearly filled the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. With 17 years of service, Haynes was on his second tour of duty in Iraq when he was killed Nov. 15 by a roadside bomb that exploded near his Humvee in Baquba. The elder Haynes said his son was directly descended from Philip Schuyler, a wealthy 18th-century landowner and patriot who served in the British colonial forces and later as one of four major generals in George Washingtons Continental Army. Yesterday, two dozen members of the Patriot Guard, an ad hoc organization of bikers, most of them military veterans, provided a motorcycle escort and stood at attention with flags in the street as the ceremony began and ended. Earlier, the deceaseds 78-year-old mother, Sophy Haynes, had left the funeral home to shake hands with the Patriot Guard members waiting to escort her sons hearse 11 blocks to the church. Haynes was to be buried today at the Albany Rural Cemetery in Menand, close to the grave of his namesake, Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler, who died in 1804. nysun/new-york/fallen-new-york-soldier-remembered/44351/
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